i would be fine, you know, except for the 2 or 3 hours of delightful false labour i'm having every other day, and the fact that it feels like new bb is taking a machete to my cervix on the days i'm not having contractions.

That is sucky. Forget morning sickness, the end of pregnancy is seriously the dog's balls.

Everyone has a different experience. I was super-tired, but didn't have any contractions or anything until labor started... Apparently you feel them more in subsequent pregnancies. Hope that provides some comfort annamal!

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I think my end-of-pregnancy was super comfy because I had extremely few braxton-hicks contractions and also I put all my nesting energy into work, so I wasn't feeling miserable at work, I was feeling super productive. Strangely the extra weight (70 pounds) didn't make me feel uncomfy, I was still handling stairs and standing just fine.

Everyone is so nice to you at the end. I was pretty comfortable the whole time until a couple days before.

the thing that's making me grouchy is that i'm not getting much sympathy. mr. bird gets all jumpy every time i breathe deeply, my sister and mom are both being dismissive to the point that i want to punch them in the faces (because they've both gone overdue with their pregnancies, so what do i know about being uncomfortable), and i have been expecting to deliver since 35 forking weeks. i'm actually not terribly terribly physically uncomfortable when i'm not having bh or contractions... i can walk pretty comfortably, i'm not swelling up or dying of heartburn or exhaustion any more.

i have honestly found this whole pregnancy to be a bit of a bummer. not the happy, glowy pregnant goddess that i probably should be, and really really looking forward to being done and not ever having to do this again!

I was much more uncomfortable in the early weeks too. I was exhausted and nauseated and just plain felt icky. At the end I just felt huge and clumsy but I wouldn't have even cared if he had needed to stay in longer than week 42 if it weren't for my mother staying with me and driving me batty. I really liked how solicitous everyone is of you when you are 9 months pregnant

Yeah, that is rough to deal with emotionally/mentally! My mom had 5 kids, and the first 4 of us were all some flavor of early. (I was born at 34 weeks and the other 3 were somewhere between 36 and 38.) She was surprised, not happy surprised, to go to almost 42 weeks with her fifth. I can still remember how palpably annoyed she was by pretty much everything. I hope it's not that long for you!

My first and third trimesters were about equally bad with the Emperor, as was most of my second trimester. It was just a shitty pregnancy! But I loved my pregnancy with the Magician up until about 36 weeks, at which point the only place I was comfortable was on my bike, the only way I could sleep was on the couch if I wedged myself just right with pillows on one side, the only thing I could eat was nothing because M was pushing on my stomach in such a way that I was pretty much always vomiting, etc etc. Seriously guys, it was the dog's balls.

Up til that point I really did understand the people who claim that they love being pregnant and that it makes them feel all happy and wonderful and shiitake. I definitely think it's possible to enjoy it all!